Story+2009-05-05+Charlottesville,+VA

“Good evening, Charlottesville! (crowd cheers) we’re so glad to be here in your beautiful city tonight (crowd cheers) and the E Street Band has come to Virginia tonight to fulfil their solemn vow to rock the house (crowd cheers) but we didn’t come here tonight just to rock the house, we came down here tonight to build a house in this room tonight (crowd cheers) that’s right, we’re gonna build a house right here…we’re gonna take fear and we’re gonna build a house of love, we’re gonna take despair and we’re gonna build a house of hope, we’re gonna take doubt and we’re gonna build a house of faith, we’re gonna take sadness and we’re gonna build a house of joy (crowd cheers) and we’re gonna take that cooling off and we’re gonna build a house of sexual healing (crowd cheers) that’s right…that’s right…we’re gonna use the bad wood and we’re gonna use the good wood, too…we’re gonna use the bad news that’s out there and we’re gonna use the good news that’s here tonight (crowd cheers) now the thing is…we’ve got all the tools we need right here on stage and in those seats (crowd cheers) to build this house tonight…but, but, there’s just one thing, we can’t do it by ourselves…’cause we’re gonna build a house out of music and out of spirit and out of noise, now the mighty E Street Band is here tonight and they’re gonna bring the power of the music down (crowd cheers) but Virginia, we need you to bring the noise (crowd cheers) now sing it like you mean it…”
 * 05.05.09 Charlottesville, VA, middle of “Working on a Dream”**

“This is a tough one…but you’re looking at one hundred years of collective bar band experience here…(music stops)…are you ready, boys?...”B”…uh…”A”…”
 * 05.05.09 Charlottesville, VA, intro to “You Really Got Me”**

“Woo!...a little spirit…come on, Max!...
 * 05.05.09 Charlottesville, VA, intro to “Spirit in the Night”**

“We gotta see if we can figure out this next one, gimme that guitar …well, we haven’t played this one in a while, let me see…(hums the melody and strums the guitar)…what’s the bridge? (laughs from the crowd) keep going…oh yeah (sings quietly to himself)…I think we got it…(intro guitar part starts)…we’re gonna try it (chuckles)… alright…”
 * 05.05.09 Charlottesville, VA, intro to “Gypsy Biker”**

“(A kid in the crowd sings the chorus) That’s very good (the kid keeps singing) once more, just a little bit louder (the kid goes on singing) you are hired…Stevie, you’re fired…”
 * 05.05.09 Charlottesville, VA, middle of “Waitin’ on a Sunny Day”**

“Thank you…we’re gonna, uh, send this one out to Pats tonight, she sends all her love, she’s, uh, still recuperating a little bit, she got thrown from a horse a couple of weeks ago…uh, and then I gave her whiplash driving her to the hospital so that (chuckles) but she’s, she’s doing a lot better, she’s been out with us a couple of dates and she sends her best, I’m gonna send this one out to her (crowd cheers)…”
 * 05.05.09 Charlottesville, VA, intro to “Kingdom of Days”**

“Thank you, Charlottesville, thank you, Virginia (crowd cheers) thank you so much…I wanna thank everyone for coming out to our show tonight, thank you so much for coming out and supporting our band (crowd cheers) woo!...yeah…you’ve thrown us a couple of good curves, the toughest one was our own song, that was the toughest one we played (chuckles) I want to, uh…we have some friends in the hall, folks from the Blue Ridge Area Foodbank Network (crowd cheers) the Blue Ridge Area Foodbank was established in 1981 to help feed struggling citizens throughout Virginia, they’ve distributed more than hundred million pounds of food to those in need here in Charlottesville and beyond…all you gotta do is pick up the newspapers today and you see the millions of jobs that have been lost and…in just the past few months seen hundreds of thousands of jobs gone and these grassroots agencies sometimes they’re the, they’re the last safety net for folks between having their kids go to bed hungry and getting something nutritious to eat, in these very difficult times here in America we need to support the Blue Ridge Area Foodbank and foodbanks like it, I appreciate it if you can help them on the way out, whatever you can do, thank you very much (crowd cheers) this was a song written in 1855 by Stephen Foster, it’s called “Hard Times Come Again No More”…”
 * 05.05.09 Charlottesville, VA, intro to “Hard Times”**

“I’m gonna send this one out tonight to Scott Malcolm, Commander of American Forces Network, this is for you, Scott and for Mary (snickers)…”
 * 05.05.09 Charlottesville, VA, intro to “Thunder Road”**

“Is there anybody alive out there? (crowd cheers) come on, let me hear you now (crowd sings)(?)…is there out-of, out-of-towners in the house (?)…”
 * 05.05.09 Charlottesville, VA, intro to “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out”**

“Thank you for coming out tonight, Charlottesville! (crowd cheers) here we go, one, two, one, two, three, four… (…) Little Steven (crowd cheers) Curtis King (crowd cheers) thunder from down under, Garry W. Tallent (crowd cheers) Sister Soozie Tyrell (crowd cheers) the prodigy, Jay Weinberg (crowd cheers) Professor Roy Bittan (crowd cheers) Charlie Giordano (crowd cheers) one of the greatest guitar players in the world, Nils Lofgren (crowd cheers) Cindy Mizelle (crowd cheers) and the biggest man you’ve ever seen: Clarence “Big Man” Clemons (crowd cheers) Charlottesville! (crowd cheers) Charlottesville! (crowd cheers) Charlottesville! (crowd cheers) Charlottesville! (crowd cheers) Charlottesville! (crowd cheers) Charlottesville! (crowd cheers) Charlottesville! (crowd cheers) you’ve just seen the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, hard-rocking, earth-shocking, booty-shaking, love-making, Viagra-taking, history-making, legendary (crowd: “E Street Band”)(crowd cheers) that’s fucking right!...”
 * 05.05.09 Charlottesville, VA, intro to “American Land”**

“Thank you, Virginia, we love you! (crowd cheers)…”
 * 05.05.09 Charlottesville, VA, after “Detroit Medley”**

//Compiled by Johanna Pirttijärvi//